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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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67 | 16.58% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
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87 | 21.53% |
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that “exposed” podcaster interview about lvov/lviv was very good, and both the interviewer and interviewee seemed very well read and impartial, so surprising/ absolutely not surprising that the state department wanted this person silenced if she’s clever she can slap a few labels over herself - too hot for tv! what they don’t want you to know about!! etc
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heaven got another latvian angel today
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Apr 17, 2023 17:56
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MonkeyLibFront posted:A little elaboration? The combat availability of the F-35C is abysmal, that type of strike couldn’t happen with the current fleet. OctaMurk posted:eh, the tank still got penetrated. the crew just got lucky It did, but the area of effect was quite limited and they was against a Kontakt 5 block. The Javelin surprisingly enough acts like a everyday ATGM of its generation rather than a super weapon that blows up tanks in a massive fireball in one hit.
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Apr 17, 2023 17:59
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OctaMurk posted:eh, the tank still got penetrated. the crew just got lucky the main point of shaped charges isn't to penetrate the metal, it's to send little bits of it flying everywhere and turning the crew into chunky salsa since that didn't happen one would assume that the reactive armor did something to stop the charge from working as intended
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Apr 17, 2023 18:00
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AnimeIsTrash posted:https://twitter.com/iwrite4jacobin/status/1647767321144950784?cxt=HHwWgIC8lb_phd4tAAAA Yup
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Apr 17, 2023 18:00
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Regarde Aduck posted:heaven got another latvian angel today Couldn't stand being demodded? 
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Apr 17, 2023 18:02
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AnimeIsTrash posted:https://twitter.com/iwrite4jacobin/status/1647767321144950784?cxt=HHwWgIC8lb_phd4tAAAA fun fact from the uk thread: brown Moses went to a expensive private high school, that he dropped out of before completing. he has never received a degree higher than the cute little papers they give when you finish elementary school
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Apr 17, 2023 18:06
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Horseshoe theory posted:Couldn't stand being demodded? he'd been going weird for years now snide comments about 'people wouldn't like to hear what he really thinks about things' in d&d (kinda paraphrasing here) then the Ukraine war happens and he makes the Ukraine thread into his own little fiefdom and echo chamber. Literally declaring anything he found uncomfortable 'boring' and probating for it. And he just happened to find discussion of NATO 'boring'. And this was ok in a forum called d&d. Gave like 5000 euros to Azov before people found out what was happening and CommieGIR tried to muddy the waters. Absolute crypto fascist oval office. And of course he was a yosposter.
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Apr 17, 2023 18:07
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Ardennes posted:The combat availability of the F-35C is abysmal, that type of strike couldn’t happen with the current fleet. Yes it is but the main point is how SEAD and DEAD will be prosecuted with future platforms, this is obviously if availability is fixed. The javelin penetrated and from what I can see is a massive chunk of spall that has hit the breech block which is a fairly lucky turn of events. The tank is still U/S and will require a new turret. The Kontact 5 didn't stop the main charge hitting the top of the turret, it maybe that they didn't have ammunition in the carousel? Or more likely they got very very lucky. MonkeyLibFront has issued a correction as of 18:26 on Apr 17, 2023 |
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Apr 17, 2023 18:07
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Raskolnikov38 posted:fun fact from the uk thread: brown Moses went to a expensive private high school, that he dropped out of before completing. he has never received a degree higher than the cute little papers they give when you finish elementary school He was expelled from journalism school! He's literally too stupid for his job!!!
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Apr 17, 2023 18:08
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DancingShade posted:Not to worry when push comes to shove the USA will come and save the day. Why does anyone think Ukraine coming out of this intact matter to our geopolitical ends?
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Apr 17, 2023 18:10
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Frosted Flake posted:The DDR would have wrapped this up in two weeks. if I was commander of a DDR battlegroup I wouldn't fall for the west's propaganda and I'd seize the levis and bananas by force
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Apr 17, 2023 18:10
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Horseshoe theory posted:Couldn't stand being demodded? lmao
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Apr 17, 2023 18:10
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rip you stupid annoying Latvian, your garbage food posts in the chat thread always sucked
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Apr 17, 2023 18:11
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Its that time posted:We said it before, but this is a major shift in the tectonic plates of world politics and economics. Our politicians seem to be too concerned with short term gains to consider even investigating the long term consequences of this. On the short term, this is just a way to bypass sanctions altogether. Unless the West puts all of Asia under sanctions, nothing can be done. What I have understood, as I engage with traditional economists that come out of the top schools like Harvard, is that they rely on instrumentalism as their primary theoretical tool. What I mean by this is that they view economics devoid of "human" characteristics, and catastrophically, they don't take into account the political economy at all. This leads to a certain type of dogma, in which the insistence is that reality is nothing more than a math problem. In this view, it makes perfect sense why European economists, who largely study Austrian and Chicago style neoliberal economics, continue to believe sanctions will have an effect. The logic is straightforward - by locking key industry inputs, and/or preventing access to foreign reserves, there would be a natural contraction as debt obligations take on a larger share of economic surplus and the consumer economy shrinks due to central banks fighting to defending their local currency, which leads to devaluation and inflation. In this instrumentalist view, the political economy is treated as a non-issue; instead, a productive economy is a narrow-minded view of markets alone. When analyzing market-causality in this way, as is taught in traditional economic courses, it seems baffling as to why Russia is resilient to inflation effects. In fact, there is no real answer, other than simply saying that oil exports alone are somehow keeping the whole thing afloat. Hand waving away the vast forces that are now at play is part of this instrumentalist view. Most western economists, including myself, are taught and trained to believe that value is inherent in assets. In this type of thinking, commodities and currency are almost magical, which is why so many conspiracy theories you find on the internet center around gold. It's baffling to me how some of my colleagues and fellow economists are looking at what's going on with Russia and simply saying "just wait, the collapse will soon come". Value theory, something that classical economists like Smith, Ricardo and Marx spoke about extensively, is now suddenly required reading to make sense of how sanctions are causing a huge, global schism. We're no longer talking about different economic styles, we're talking about 2 different universes with completely different understanding of economic theory itself. Raw resources, exports and commodities are taught to be "lower" levels of economic sophistication within orthodox thinking. Export based countries like Venezuela or Congo will be "naturally" underdeveloped due to their over-reliance on a single commodity. In reality, the western economic model, as defined in Bretton Woods, is neo-colonial as it forces these countries to have an unequal trade portfolio - if we send cars to Congo and they send us cobalt, why would they develop their own native car industry? This is supposedly "efficient" free trade, but all it does is keep countries underdeveloped and reliably "resource cursed", as they have to import basic needs, which as their population grows, will strain their export capabilities to keep up. This inevitably leads to a constrained, unproductive economy as the currency weakens to service their growing import debt leads to eventual debt-bondage by the IMF as they give them loans with unpayable terms, which leads to a vicious cycle. It's like telling a starving man he has to win a marathon, but not allow him to eat any food. Russian economists were just as blind to this reality on why countries outside of the neo-colonial western core stagnate. Further liberalization only leads to increasing polarization as the richest part of their country gains wealth, impoverishing the rest. It's only in places like America where we consider it to be a success when there's a row of 10 million dollar condos next to a tent city - smashing and grabbing without planning for the long term is how colonizers act, and the damage they spread in their wake is simply thought to be the fault of the colonized. It's not surprising to me that western economists don't know, or even understand, the schism taking place. The people that do see it are the generals - just like in WW1 when Germany used the power of their centralized bank (similar to how China is setup today) to leapfrog England in development, this eventually led to a showdown where economic systems were as much in play as the rest of the appetite for war. Our system is not capable of long term growth without being a parasite on other countries, extracting cheap labor and cheap raw material on currency terms so comically asymmetrically favoring us that we force other countries to transact in dollars; can you imagine the reaction of American politicians if we had to conduct all of our trade in Indian Rupees?
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Apr 17, 2023 18:12
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Raskolnikov38 posted:fun fact from the uk thread: brown Moses went to a expensive private high school, that he dropped out of before completing. he has never received a degree higher than the cute little papers they give when you finish elementary school Dropping out of school and getting a sweet posting gig is something we all can aspire too.
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Apr 17, 2023 18:14
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who will make the annual Apple Computer press conference thread in yospos now 
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Apr 17, 2023 18:17
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Regarde Aduck posted:he'd been going weird for years now Not the only thread he did it in, Scandithread wasn't allowed to discuss our countries supplying weapons or the media whitewashing Azov as "pro-LGBT".
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Apr 17, 2023 18:25
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gradenko_2000 posted:He was expelled from journalism school! He's literally too stupid for his job!!! The journalism programs require you maintain an 80-85 average semester to semester just to stay enrolled and so it produces an army of Homework Kids. The British system of good breeding and nepotism is still worse. SplitSoul posted:media whitewashing Azov as "pro-LGBT". Latvia, Germany, Britain, Transylvania.
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Apr 17, 2023 18:28
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Regarde Aduck posted:gotta love how neoliberalism has just accepted overt theft as part of the end of history When you are a part of the empire you always come to the conclusion that everything done must be done, and is a good thing. We could be open about our war crimes and the western world would trip over themselves coming up with rationalizations for us. You question us you get ground to dust, any nation that can prevent that from happening is evil, is our enemy and must be destroyed to ensure our empire is eternal.
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Apr 17, 2023 18:32
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Idk anything about Cinci but lol at writing a John Galt monologue in your autoban op
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Apr 17, 2023 18:34
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I hope this trend of insane freaks auto banning like it's the end of fateful findings continues
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Apr 17, 2023 18:36
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I can’t imagine trying to moderate this hell site
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Apr 17, 2023 18:40
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The dickpreg guy outing himself was amazing, holy poo poo came out of nowhere
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Apr 17, 2023 18:42
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Cao Ni Ma posted:The dickpreg guy outing himself was amazing, holy poo poo came out of nowhere u wot m8
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Apr 17, 2023 18:45
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Hatebag posted:I hope this trend of insane freaks auto banning like it's the end of fateful findings continues For me, it's the users with sub-200 posts counts over 20 years that hurt the most to lose
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Apr 17, 2023 18:45
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euphronius posted:I can’t imagine trying to moderate this hell site I'd go bonker within a day for sure.
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Apr 17, 2023 18:51
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dk2m posted:What I have understood, as I engage with traditional economists... Very informative, thank you. And regarding FF's post about Canada's North, I'm sure our politicians will find market based solutions once we get there.  The lack of vision on that is appaling. I'm sure it's gonna be something like Canada's having nominal ownership of airbases and ports, ''assuming command'' of sort. All of it turning out to be just USA boots on the ground from top to bottom.I'm sure they will martial more Rangers up north for the PR stunt, grifting on snowmobile contracts and whatever else on the go. The fun part would be if the Indigenous bartered them off for rare, luxury goods like water purifiers and generators with ships passing by. Not that funny to think the polar ice caps might melt before the canadian government provide them basic living conditions.
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Apr 17, 2023 18:52
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MonkeyLibFront posted:Yes it is but the main point is how SEAD and DEAD will be prosecuted with future platforms, this is obviously if availability is fixed. A lot easier said than done, also DCS in all likelihood can’t really model how radar is going to work in a peer to peer conflict because so much about radar interoperability and stealth isn’t readily available, In particular, how countries can use datalinks to breakdown the profile of an aircraft. I think the problem in the north is going to be naval strength, and the fact that, with the Russian Northern Fleet sitting there, it is going to be very difficult to dislodge the Russians from dominating most of the Arctic Ocean. NATO, and particularly US, resources are stretched as it is. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 18:56 on Apr 17, 2023 |
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Apr 17, 2023 18:54
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lollontee posted:u wot m8 https://forums.somethingawful.com/banlist.php?userid=229041
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Apr 17, 2023 18:55
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wanna make a post about him in the sagas thread? i'd appreciate having yet another cancerous story lodged in my brain
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Apr 17, 2023 19:02
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I dont quite remember the jist of it, it was a regular in an anti communist thread in pyf I think. There was a QCS thread and eventually someone dug into the guy and figured out he was into some really hosed up cartoon porn
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Apr 17, 2023 19:21
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MonkeyLibFront posted:The javelin penetrated and from what I can see is a massive chunk of spall that has hit the breech block which is a fairly lucky turn of events. The tank is still U/S and will require a new turret. The Kontact 5 didn't stop the main charge hitting the top of the turret, it maybe that they didn't have ammunition in the carousel? Or more likely they got very very lucky. The armour is just thin on the top of a tank. It's also poorly angled, so ERA doesn't affect the warhead very much. On the other hand, this is not a massive chunk of spall at all, which is one of the downsides of the javelin's small warhead. The other side of luck is that the javelin crew hit the tank, because its a clunky weapon that isn't accurate at maximum range.
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Apr 17, 2023 19:23
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AdamSomething says Russia is kaput https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPX1CieUkFY
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Apr 17, 2023 19:28
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WaryWarren posted:AdamSomething says Russia is kaput  Also lots of discussion about human wave assaults by convicts
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Apr 17, 2023 19:33
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Featuring Lazer Pig makes me really want to watch something
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Apr 17, 2023 19:33
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please put content warnings on ANYTHING involving lazer pig for the love of god
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Apr 17, 2023 19:34
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Ardennes posted:Featuring Lazer Pig makes me really want to watch something I jumped around in it a bit before jumping out. This stuff makes me feel like I'm losing my mind. We will see who ends up wrong.
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Apr 17, 2023 19:34
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Lazer pig got big making a video about why the T-34 was actually a bad tank and Russians are dumb animals
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Makes it more impressive that the Soviets managed to win the war with a bad tank and dumb soldiers imo.
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